Rodan Sotto's Tech Blog

I will probably be very brief about this and just go through the important ones, the ones that you need to know if you’re coming from classic ASP just like me. Creating a Webpage When you create your ASP.NET web site (File -> New Website… and select ASP.NET Web Site from the templates), Default.aspx file is created and probably the web.conf... Read More

I had the opportunity to work on classic ASP before and let me tell you, it’s really hard to create a dynamic website especially for data entry-type of web applications.  You need to do a lot of client-side scripting and some tricks on the server side to make your web applications behave like desktop applications. I remember creating a simple o... Read More

I recently had a job interview and one of the questions in the written exam that they gave me was about the new data types in SQL Server 2005.  I did get most of them.  So here are the new data types in SQL Server 2005, in case you wanted to know: XML As the name suggests, this data type can store XML data. VarChar(MAX), NVarChar(MAX), and Va... Read More

There was this test in one of the job interviews I had recently that I did not ace well.  It was a written programming test.  I have not been given a written programming test for a while so I was caught off-guard.  If this was a hands-on, I would have aced it.  Anyways, here is some more details about the problem. Given an input of 1-7 indicati... Read More

Just wasted my time trying to debug why the Timer control (from the Toolbox under Components) on my Windows Service project was not working at all.  Then I tried explicitly creating a Timer object from the System.Timers.Timer class and now it is working. One thing I noticed though is that when I used the Timer control, the event that is fired w... Read More